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Life outcomes in adults living with FASD in a rural South African community: A follow-up study

African Journal of Disability
Background: Even though adults with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) are at risk of negative life outcomes, there is no published evidence of this in South Africa, which has the highest estimated FASD prevalence rate globally.
Mandi Broodryk, Jaco G. Louw, Debbie Acker, Denis L. Viljoen, Leana Olivier   +4 more
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Student Attitudes Towards Drinking Behaviors [PDF]

, 2014
The literature is relatively inconclusive regarding predictors of alcohol use; while some studies have demonstrated an association between high levels of social interaction and increased alcohol use, others have shown that a lack of social support is ...
Gaines, Laura
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Breast Cancer and Aging: Understanding the Complex Relationship and Implications for Prevention and Screening

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Breast cancer is a multifactorial disease that affects many women worldwide. Age is the most important risk factor for breast cancer, with an increased incidence markedly after the age of 50. The relationships of aging to breast cancer have been thoroughly examined, and notable connections regarding various age‐related changes in ...
Mehran Radak, Armin Sharifi, Derek Richard, Hossein Fallahi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics of the Washington cannabis market from 2014 to 2016

Journal of Cannabis Research, 2022
Background The state of Washington legalized cannabis for adult use in 2012 and retail stores began to open in 2014. While details of the legal market have been tracked by the state, the total market for cannabis and characteristics of purchasers can ...
William C. Kerr, Yu Ye
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The politics of alcohol policy in Nigeria: a critical analysis of how and why brewers use strategic ambiguity to supplant policy initiatives [PDF]

, 2013
The global call by the World Health Assembly (WHA) to control the rising alcohol-related problems caused by harmful consumption through policy became necessary in 2005 due to the recognition of the fact that many countries did not have alcohol policies ...
Agbiboa DE, Agostinelli G, Aworemi JR, Bernheim BD, Burbank SB, Casswell S, De Bruijn A, Dumbili E, Jernigan DH, Obot IS, Oshodin OG, Poznyak V, Rotimi A, WHO, WHO   +14 more
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Chronic Pain in Parkinson’s Disease: Prevalence, Sex Differences, Regional Anatomy and Comorbidities

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Chronic pain affected 66.2% of 10,631 individuals with Parkinson's disease, with higher prevalence and severity in females. Pain most often involved the buttocks, lower back, neck, and knees, and was linked to depression, sleep disorders, and osteoarthritis.
Natalia S. Ogonowski, Freddy Chafota, Fangyuan Cao, Amanda Wei Yin Lim, Victor Flores‐Ocampo, Santiago Díaz‐Torres, Zuriel Ceja, Luis M. García‐Marín, Scott F. Farrell, Kishore R. Kumar, Jane Alty, George D. Mellick, Trung Thành Ngô, Miguel E. Rentería   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of changes in opioid dependency treatment upon COVID-19 transmission in Sydney, Australia: a retrospective longitudinal observational study

BMC Public Health
Background In April 2020, in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Drug and Alcohol services modified their delivery of opioid dependency treatment (ODT) to reduce spread of COVID-19 and ...
Benjamin T. Trevitt, Victoria Hayes, Rachel Deacon, Llewellyn Mills, Apo Demirkol, Nicholas Lintzeris   +5 more
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Tobacco use and nicotine dependence among people living with HIV who drink heavily in South Africa: a cross-sectional baseline study

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background People living with HIV (PLWH) who drink alcohol and use tobacco are particularly vulnerable to tobacco-induced diseases due to an already compromised immune system. This study investigated the prevalence and factors associated with tobacco use
Catherine O. Egbe, Mukhethwa Londani, Charles D. H. Parry, Bronwyn Myers, Paul A. Shuper, Sebenzile Nkosi, Neo K. Morojele   +6 more
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Do drinking motives mediate the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and alcohol use among adolescents? [PDF]

, 2019
Funding: Funding for the Scottish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children was provided by NHS Scotland. This work was also supported by the 600th Anniversary Ph.D.
Browne, Candace Currie, Cooper, Flowerdew, Geiser, Gelman, Gina Martin, Joanna Inchley, Katz, Khana, Leckie, Sudhinaraset   +11 more
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Longitudinal Study of Salivary Biomarkers in the Definition of Clinico‐Molecular Progression of Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Longitudinal changes in salivary biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease (PD) from early (T0) to 4‐year follow‐up (T1), quantified by ELISA: oligomeric and total α‐synuclein, total and phosphorylated tau, MAP1LC3B (autophagy), and TNFa (inflammation). Blue arrows indicate direction of change at T1 vs T0 (up = increase; down = decrease).
Maria Ilenia De Bartolo, Daniele Belvisi, Matteo Costanzo, Claudia Caturano, Francesco Emanuele Bellomi, Carolina Cutrona, Flavia Aiello, Giorgio Leodori, Massimo Marano, Romina Mancinelli, Antonella Conte, Giovanni Fabbrini, Alfredo Berardelli, Giorgio Vivacqua   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source